Food Price Rise Triggers Mixed Consumer Reactions
A Nixon administration report shows January retail food prices rose two to three percent, the largest jump in 20 to 25 years. Women on Massachusetts Street react with resignation, planning meatless days and shifts to non meat proteins while the administration discusses measures to curb costs.
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Massachusetts
Goldie Wilson
Washington
Nixon
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Capitol Hill
Arthur F. Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Burns
C. W. McMillan
American National Cattlemen’s Association
McMillan
Butz
National Agricultural Outlook
Buzz
CPI
Lawrence High Senior Speaker Urges Civic Study at Sertoma
Rosalea Postma of Lawrence High spoke to the Sertoma Club at the Holiday Inn urging Americans to study heritage freedoms and democracy. She highlighted the Declaration of Independence presentations to local eighth graders and emphasized meanings of rights and liberty.
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Lawrence High
Rosalea Postma
Lawrence Sertoma Club
Holiday Inn
Miss Postma
Sertoma
LHS
Roy Cropp
Jeff Tryon
Central Junior High
Claire Keizer
South Junior High
Fire alarm sprinkler triggers at Gibson's Discount Center
A sprinkler system in the incinerator room at Gibson's Discount Center 2525 Iowa triggered at 9 38 p m Tuesday with no damage reported. Lawrence firefighters investigated the incident and found no injuries or further hazards.
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Gibson’s Discount Center
Iowa
Lawrence
State Welfare Control Clears Hurdle in Kansas House
The Kansas House approved a bill granting full state administrative control of social welfare by a 76 to 33 vote. Final passage is slated for Thursday with debate focusing on merits rather than personalities, despite criticism that the measure is poorly drafted and overly centralized.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
House
Rep
C.E. Clayecomb
Scott City
Leland Speer
Kansas City
Speer
Robert Harder
Richard Loux
Wichita
John Peterson
Ropeka
Snow Hall
Apparent Los Angeles Earthquake Message Replaced By Error
An AP wire story claiming an earthquake in Los Angeles at 9:45 a.m. EST proved to be a transmission error. Later reports showed no significant quake and no damage occurred.
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Los Angeles
Dyche's Arctic Expeditions Shape Kansas National Exhibit
The Kansas exhibition faced criticism for nonnative specimens but gained state support by 1900. Wyeth Dyche led 27 Arctic trips, survived the Miranda shipwreck in 1894, and aspired to plant the Stars and Stripes on the North Pole. He died in 1915 in Topeka, with a museum built in his honor and remembered as a state treasure.
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Topeka
Kansas
Dyche
North America
Frederick A. Cook
Arctic
Miranda
Atlantic
Chicago Evening News
North Pole
State House
House
Senate
Museum of Natural
Journal- World
Journal-World
Car Train Crash on North Third No Injuries
A switch engine and a car collided at 5 20 p m Tuesday on North Third beside Union Pacific tracks 73 feet north of Locust. No injuries and minimal engine damage. Driver Melvin C Ledbetter 42 of Tonganoxie identified. Vehicle damage about 200 dollars. Hill and Ledbetter blocked by a parked railcar. Four other Tuesday collisions reported with little damage. Douglas County sheriff investigated a county dump truck overturn near K 10 with driver Larry L McClelland 36 uninjured and truck damage about 1100 dollars.
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North Third
Union Pacific
Locust
Lawrence
Melvin C. Ledbetter
Tonganoxie
Hill
Ledbetter
Douglas County
Larry L. McClelland
101
Mich
McClelland
U S Seeks Release of 140 More POWs
Saigon report says the United States urged North Vietnam and the Viet Cong to free 140 additional American prisoners of war before next Tuesday. Officials disclosed after the Joint Military Commission subcommittee on captured persons met to discuss the request. They will coordinate date time and arrangement with authorities.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
U.S
Joint Military Commission
Beech case probed after audit uncovers cash irregularities
City officials said a June auditor report triggered a county attorney investigation leading to Beech's no contest plea on February 9. The case involves unauthorized withdrawals and unaccounted deposits totaling about 9 900 with 7 269 27 returned, while 2 640 73 remains unaccounted. Prosecutors may seek grand jury action.
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Jerry Donnelly
Water Department
Buford Watson
Chuck Fisher
Milton P. Allen
Beech
Miller
Frank Gray
Division I
Berkowitz
Robert Oyler
Allen
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Travelers’ Insurance Co
Handling details at home or away
Humesy Funeral Home contact number 848-5111 AGV details indicate funeral service coordination.
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Humesy Funeral Home
AGV
State highway chief cites unknown factors delaying K-10 meeting
Still No Action John D. McNeal state highway engineer at Topeka said on Tuesday I don't know what problems are holding up a meeting on the K-10 visibility situation east of Lawrence near the Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn plant.
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John D. McNeal
Topeka
Lawrence
Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn
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Mass
Kenneth Walker
Betty Frians
Highland Dr
Sandra Francisco
Ms. Francisco
Sally Detler
Clayton Crosier
Crosier
Ralph Hess Jr
Rt. 3
Baldwin
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Trail Road
Haslam
Wilson
Walker
Friauf
Francisco
Detlor
Hess
Larson
Air Force Maj
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Sue
Travis Air Force Base
Associated Press
Journal-World News Room
Bright
Shawnee County
North
William J. Hill
Kansas City, Mo
Jack Rose
Hanoi
Henry A. Kissinger
South
Vietnam
Laos
Kissinger
International Commission of Control and Supervision
South Vietnam
Pham van Dong
Watson
District Court
Lawrence National
Townsquare
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